In 2018, copyright registrations in China maintained the rapid growth of recent years. The total number of registrations exceeded 3.45 million, including 2,351,952 registrations of works, with an increase of 17.48% year-on-year, and 1,104,839 registrations of software copyright, with an increase of 48.22% year-on-year.
In terms of the type of works, 992,513 works of art take up the largest number of registered works, accounting for 42.20% of the total; the second is 917,045 photographic works, accounting for 38.99% of the total registered works; the third is 278,170 works of text, accounting for 11.83% of the total registered works; the fourth is 53,224 works of film and television, accounting for 2.26% of the total registered works; and the above types of works account for 95.28% of the total registered works. Other registered works include music works, video products, graphic works, sound recordings, models, dramas, folk arts, architecture, etc.
Among software registrations in emerging fields, app software registrations grew particularly strongly, up 76.29% year-on-year, which is one of the fast-growing software categories in hot areas. In addition, the number of AI software registrations increased by 104.02% year-on-year and the number of big data software registrations increased by 64.27%. These growth rates were higher than the overall growth rate of software registration, showing a rapid development trend to various extents.
Source：http://www.iprchn.com/cipnews/news_content.aspx?newsId=114415